Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

Dang, what was that big tabby's deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dang · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 deal	mark
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tabby	amod
7	tabby	tabby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 tabby	case
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dang	appos
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dang	big tabby's deal					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He was very old, lazy, and had a lame paw and torn ear

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 paw	det
11	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 paw	amod
12	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ear	cc
14	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ear	amod
15	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		old property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here			tree rules
3	have	past		a lame paw		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
4	tear	participle				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was old and had a lame paw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 old	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 paw	det
7	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 paw	amod
8	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					old property	tree rules
2	have	past	He not said here	a lame paw					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient

Option 3

He was grey with green eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grey	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grey	cop
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyes	amod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grey	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					with green eyes; grey property	tree rules

Option 4

He was big and very lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 big	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 big	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lazy	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 lazy	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					big property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

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